<font size="4"><b>N.K.</b></font><br><br>Friday Dec 2nd 2011 doors 21:00 concert 22:00 <h3><strong>GenComp Collective & Booklaunch “Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience”</strong></h3>
<p>A concert night to accompany the workshop <strong>“Neuro Reality Check”</strong> at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin <strong>featuring music performances by GenComp Collective.</strong><br>
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<a href="http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/workshops/en/Neuro-Reality-Check.html">http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/workshops/en/Neuro-Reality-Check.html</a></p>
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GenComp Collective Berlin: Chaotic, cybernetic, and hybrid systems.</strong></p>
<p>Neurological and cybernetic research techniques have been adopted by
many experimental music protagonists, such as Louis and Bebe Barron,
Alvin Lucier, David Tudor and others. The GenComp Collective Berlin
(Alberto de Campo, Hannes Hoelzl, and students, alumni and associates of
the class Generative Art / Computational Art at UdK Berlin) explores
the use of such systems for experimental performance. They use current
developments like Rob Hordijk’s chaotic synthesizers(the Benjolin and
the Blippoo box), Peter Blasser’s hybrid designs Fourses and the Rollz
family of modules; they design, build and program their own performance
systems based on a variety of sensors, analog electronics, and software
synthesis. </p>
<p>The book to-be-launched: Choudhury, Suparna / Slaby, Jan (eds.):<br>
<strong>“Critical Neuroscience. A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience.”</strong></p>
<p><strong>Critical Neuroscience: </strong>A Handbook of the Social and
Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience brings together leading scholars in a
collective effort to understand the impact of the intellectual, economic
and political conditions on current views of the brain and how these
models may in turn impact society. With illuminating insights and deep
scholarly rigour, Critical Neuroscience offers a comprehensive
interdisciplinary perspective that aims to enrich our understanding of
the brain as situated in the body and world, and neuroscience as
embedded in a complex cultural context. </p>
<p><a href="http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444333283.html">http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1444333283.html </a></p>
<p>Both workshop and evening event are open to the public; if you’d like
to attend the workshop though, please do register [link to mpiwg
website above] in advance.</p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b><br></b></p><p><b>N.K.</b></p><p>Elsenstr. 52/<br>
2.Hinterhaus Etage 2 <br>
12059 Berlin Neukölln <br>
0049(0)17620626386 <br></p><p><a href="http://www.nkprojekt.de">www.nkprojekt.de</a><br></p><p><br></p>